January 2016 | Bridge The Gulf Project

Mossville Community to Confront a Former Apartheid Company on Martin Luther King Holiday

Written by: Monique Harden, Dorothy Felix & Rebecca Johnson*

Days before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech in 1964 about the struggles for racial justice taking place in the United States and South Africa. A recording of the speech was recently discovered and aired on Democracy Now!. In this speech, Dr. King conveyed the unity of purpose of these struggles for freedom and justice.

Land and Housing

Africatown Blight: Buildling Up Or Tearing Down?

Community Blight can normally be cleared up in two ways: by restoring the structure considered as blight or by tearing it down. Typically, it is easier and cheaper to tear something down than to repair it.

The Africatown Community is different than most African - American Communities because about 50 percent of the community has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places and should be protected and restored at all costs.

Coalition of Oystermen, Injured Workers and Waterkeepers Wins Hearing on Formosa Plastics’ Discharge into Lavaca Bay, Texas

Austin, Texas – A coalition of groups consisting of the San Antonio Bay Waterkeepers, Union of Commercial Oystermen of Texas and Texas Injured Workers have challenged and won standing for a contested case wastewater hearing against Formosa Plastics, Point Comfort, Texas.